The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn’t about money or possessions or even our hopes. It’s about our pride.
BOB GOFFGod wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.
More Bob Goff Quotes
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God made beauty so we’d know how He felt about us.
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I don’t think success is what we’ve made of ourselves; I think it’s what we’ve made of others.
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Do less of what you’re terrible at and more of what you’re good at. I don’t know if that sounds too simple, but it’s been working for me.
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The battle for our hearts is fought on the pages of our calendar.
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If you get a no from somebody, don’t say, ‘I’m going to take this as some big cosmic signal.’ No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.
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Not surprisingly, we’d get a lot more done too, because we wouldn’t care who’s looking or taking credit. All that energy would be funnelled into awesomeness.
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I learned that fully loving and fully living are not only synonymous but the kind of life that Jesus invited us to be part of.
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Live a life of conspicuous grace and courageous resolve.
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But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It’s a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.
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Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
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I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them.
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You can quit anything on a Thursday.
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One thing I do is (and I realize this might sound nuts), every month or so, I try to take like an Etch-a-sketch [so to speak], and I clear my faith. I go to zero, clear the deck. And I start adding things back to my faith, one at a time.
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It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
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What I’ve learned the more time I’ve spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
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